It’s 2016. It’s tough, I know, but we need to train ourselves to train our students to think and work even more digitally. Less paper.​Diigo can help us with that. Diigo is a bookmarking tool with other functions to simplify the research process for students, including organizing, collaborating, and annotating. Our databases provide many of these same tools for articles students find within the database; Diigo, however, provides those tools for web resources. ​

I used Diigo this summer for a class. I was so impressed. I immediately added it to the blog editorial calendar so I could spread the word to you. Here are some of my favorite things about the tool:

It’s social. Other users can follow you and vice versa. Users also can invite each other to Diigo groups to collaborate on a task.

​You can bookmark sites and tag them to help you stay organized. View my in-progress tag list to the right.​

When you install the Chrome extension (It’s a click of a button from Diigo's site. That simple.), you can visit any website and highlight or annotate it using sticky notes. Your screen might look like this (the Diigo toolbar is in the top right corner):

Your notes will be saved for you when you visit that site at a later date and activate the Diigo extension. You also can view those notes when you login to your Diigo account. They will look like this: